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africanews.com /1 month ago

African Trade: Bringing AfCFTA Closer to Local Businesses {Business Africa}

Access to finance also remains a critical obstacle. To address this, the ITC has partnered with Equity Group to expand trade finance for priority sectors while providing entreprene...

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allafrica.com /1 month ago

Africa: Africa Has Ideas - What It Lacks Is a Fair Hearing from Global Capital

[allAfrica] Why good African businesses and projects can struggle to cross the funding redline

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allafrica.com /1 week ago

Africa: Africa Brought Deals to Washington - The Test is Whether the Money Moves

[African Business] Washington, DC -- The inaugural Africa Business Investment Summit saw a target of $500m of structured commitments, a royal keynote and an unusually candid accoun...

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allafrica.com /5 days ago

Africa: Loza Mal&#xE9;ombho Is Building An Industry From African Stories

[Bird Story Agency] Internationally recognised after Beyoncé wore her designs, Ivorian designer Loza Maléombho is now looking beyond fashion. Through Pokou, she is combining Baoulé...

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allafrica.com /2 weeks ago

Africa: Inaugural Africa Business Investment Summit Convenes 27-28 August in Washington DC

[Africa Business Investment Summit] Africa's business leaders will convene in Washington D.C., for the inaugural Africa Business Investment Summit (ABIS) 2026, taking place at MGM...

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allafrica.com /1 month ago

Africa: Cotton to Cloth - The Story Africa Has Always Needed to Tell

[allAfrica] Africa grows more than half of the world's finest long-staple cotton. It earns less than three percent of what that cotton is eventually worth. This is not a trade prob...

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allafrica.com /1 month ago

Africa: A Senegalese Factory Proves Africa Can Spin Its Own Cotton - Can It Find the Money to Keep Going?

[allAfrica] Domitexka's mill in Kaolack has the markets, the know-how and the partnerships to compete globally. What it still needs -- like nearly every manufacturer on the contine...

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allafrica.com /1 month ago

Africa: Why Africa's Textile Story Is Bigger Than the Numbers Suggest

[Bird Story Agency] Africa is beginning to reverse an age-old equation: exporting raw cotton and importing the value created from it. The challenge is to close the ''missing middle...

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allafrica.com /4 days ago

Africa: African Development Bank and Axian Launch Digital Finance Programme to Support 34,000 Women-Led Businesses in Af...

[African Development Bank (AfDB)] AXIAN Group and the African Development Bank have launched a major women's financial inclusion programme to expand access to finance and business...

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allafrica.com /1 week ago

Africa: The Trade Pact That Could Stitch Africa's Textile Industry Together

[Bird Story Agency] The AfCFTA offers African cotton, textile and clothing businesses the opportunity to build cross-border production networks, attract investment and retain more...

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allafrica.com /3 weeks ago

Africa: Building a Case for Value Addition in Africa

[allAfrica] Only an integrated approach to value addition will elevate African economies, create new jobs and leapfrog development stages.

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allafrica.com /3 weeks ago

Africa: From Capital to Prosperity

[allAfrica] Africa has no shortage of industrial ambition. What it lacks is the financial machinery to turn ambition into factories.

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premiumtimesng.com /1 month ago

The strategic imperative of global business summits on Africa, By Ehi Braimah

Africa has emerged as one of the most strategic frontiers for global investment, trade, innovation, and economic transformation. With a population projected to exceed 2.5 billion b...

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allafrica.com /2 weeks ago

South Africa: Businessman Seeks Bail in Trafficking Case - South African News Briefs - August 25, 2026

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allafrica.com /1 month ago

Africa: IFC, Industrial Policy and the Private Sector: Development Through the Lens of the Thiam Threshold

[allAfrica] From Project Bankability to Building Productive and Financeable Economies

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allafrica.com /3 weeks ago

Africa: Inside The $5 Billion Plan To Keep Africa's Cotton Jobs In Africa

[Bird Story Agency] Africa grows plenty of cotton. It just does not make much of it into clothes. A new $5 billion plan aims to change that, turning a scattered collection of cotto...

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tribune.com.pk /1 day ago

Pakistan-Africa Economic Council to launch to tap 1.59b-people consumer market

Council will connect Pakistani businesses with projects, investors, and partners across selected African countries

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allafrica.com /1 month ago

Africa: A Landmark for African Finance - Europe's First African Sovereign Bond ETF Opens a New Chapter

[allAfrica] For years, African finance ministers have made the same case at investor conferences and multilateral summits: the continent is not short of bankable projects, it is sh...

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allafrica.com /1 month ago

Africa: From Capital to Prosperity - Can Africa build the financial engine for its industrialisation?

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zambianews.net /1 month ago

Roundup: African manufacturers look to China's industrial experience to boost growth

by Ntandoyenkosi Ncube JOHANNESBURG, July 15 (Xinhua) -- African manufacturers and trade officials have called on the continent to draw lessons from China's industrial transformati...

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dailypost.ng /1 month ago

Investors at UBA Business series identify Africa’s next billion-dollar opportunities

Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has hosted another impactful edition of its quarterly UBA Business Series, bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, innov...

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theeastafrican.co.ke /1 month ago

Afreximbank banks on intra-African trade

Geopolitical tensions, rising protectionism and shifting global trade patterns are making regional integration increasingly important.

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zambianews.net /1 month ago

African manufacturers look to China's industrial experience to boost growth

On the sidelines of the 2026 Manufacturing Indaba in Johannesburg on Wednesday, Rhyan Injendi, Kenya's commercial and trade attache at the High Commission in Pretoria, told Xinhua...

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africanews.com /6 days ago

Africa food systems forum: Putting capital where It matters {Business Africa}

How can Africa bridge the gap between ambitious commitments and the capital needed to scale businesses? and After 15 years off the tracks, Kinshasa’s commuter train returns, offeri...

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